The fight against powerful economic interests early in its history included:

• Plea for support to Civil War Round Tables throughout the United States
• Development of newsletter
• Diagrams showing endangered areas
• Broad membership throughout the nation, with more than 150 members donating $100 or more
• Letter-writing campaign to Louisiana newspapers and power company officials
• Support of Lands Unsuitable Petition filed by the Louisiana Environmental Network (LEAN) in conjunction with the Austin Civil War Round Table and Tulane Environmental Law Center forces AEP-SWEPCO into discussion
• Support of hearing at DeSoto Court House by the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources Office of Conservation
• Engaged support of Mansfield Mayor Curtis McCoy, a military veteran
• Funding for Mansfield State Historic Site activities drawing attention to the battle. These included: Annual battle commemoration activities, guided tours, Ghosts of the Civil War Halloween tour, Civil War Soldier Life, Civil War Surgery and Medicine, Beyond the Petticoat (how local women supported war efforts), living history encampments and cannon firings, school programs at the battlefield
• Tour of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill battle sites by the Historians of the Civil War Western Theater
• Cooperation with Civil War heritage groups to encourage visitation, enhance visitor experience at the Mansfield State Historic Site and draw attention to those who fought in the Red River Campaign
• Hosting reception and presentation by Belgian, Daniel Frankignoul, the official historian of the family of French General Polignac, who led Texas troops at Mansfield
• Documents for Chesapeake Energy to direct protect sections of the battlefields at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill during well and pipeline location activities
• Book signings at Mansfield State Historic Site to draw attention to Red River Campaign
• Donation of Civil War era pistol to enhance the exhibit at Mansfield State Historic Site
• Purchase of archival supplies to store research materials
• Developed and presented a symposium on the Red River Campaign in Louisiana for the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in 2014

The attention helped to spur additional visitors for the Mansfield State Historic Site, rising as high as 14,230 in 2003–04.

In April of 2014 the Calhoun family of Mansfield donated the Allen House used during the battle and surrounding property to the Mansfield state Historic Site. In 2017 The Civil War Trust (now American Battlefield Trust) joined Cleco to preserve 14.5 acres. The Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved over 400 acres at Mansfield since 1993.